In 1998, Yu Hua won the highest prize in Italian literature for his novel "Alive", and the subsequent publication of "Brothers" caused great controversy, and this "Brothers" was sold out in Hong Kong as soon as it was listed. Yu Hua entered the health center as a dentist after the college entrance examination, and the rest of the opinions were used in reading and writing, so there were so many wonderful realist novels.
There is a marriage story in Yu Hua's "Brothers" that I still remember vividly. Li Lan has borne the shame of her ex-husband for seven years, and her new husband Song Fanping crossed the corpse station, these are her darkest moments.
Why is she still alive and happy after the death of her two husbands? I see three things in the book.
Li Lan's ex-husband Li Shanfeng unfortunately drowned because he peeked at the woman's ass in the toilet, and it was Song Fanping who carried Li Shanfeng back and washed the body full of feces and put it away.
When her ex-husband was carried back, Li Lan's eyes were full of emptiness and despair, as if he was going to die with his ex-husband in the next second.
When she eased up, she found that the only thing her ex-husband had left behind was a notorious reputation.
Because of the shame left by her ex-husband, she lived like a street rat, cowering and trembling for seven years.
It wasn't until one summer night, when Song Fanping and she were getting closer, that Li Lan's dark life was projected with a beam of light.
Song Fanping was the basketball star of the night, and because he was too excited after the dunk, he also picked up Li Lan. Li Lan was trembling with excitement and tears, and she began to think of all the things that had happened since Song Fanping and her met.
Li Lan was immersed in the feeling of memory, in the dim and deserted street, Song Fanping blocked Li Lan and persuaded him to bask in the sun for his son, and when he was hard to carry the rice home, Song Fanping took Li Guangtou and the rice bag and walked back to Li Lan's home to give rice to the rice tank.
Later, Song Fanping's wife died of illness, and Li Lan and Song Fanping began to walk in slowly, and later they married.
On the first day of Song Fanping's new marriage, three people came to look for stubble and made fun of Li Lan's ex-husband. Song Fanping came forward to protect Li Lan and fought with them. Li Lan took the initiative to make amends for her husband's face.
On the second day of the new marriage, although Song Fanping's nose was blue and his face was swollen, it did not prevent him from washing Li Lan's hair in front of the door, and Li Lan's face was red.
But her eyes were full of happiness, and she didn't dare to raise her head before, but now her eyes gradually had light and tenderness.
The love that Song Fanping gave her made Li Lan come out of the darkness of the past little by little.
Romain Rolland said: "Love is the flame of life, without which everything would become dark." ”
Love and respect add luster to a bleak life.
Maintaining these two kinds of mutual output can make the marriage better and better.
When Li Baldhead was fifteen years old, he was arrested and sent to the police station for peeking at a woman's ass in the toilet, and he also bought the secret of his ass for others to support himself within half a year.
After Li Lan learned that Li Guangtou looked at his ass, he felt that Li Guangtou and her ex-husband were a melon on a bad vine, and he was desperate.
In LiuZhen, a woman cannot wash her hair for half a year or a year after her husband's death. After Song Fanping's death, Li Lan did not wash his hair, and usually went out with hair oil.
Once Li Guangtou took Li Lan to the bathhouse to wash his hair, and Li Lan's white hair after washing out made Li Guangtou almost unrecognizable. Later, Li Lan went to the hospital and learned that he had uremia.
Li Lan wanted to burn paper for Song Fanping before leaving, so Li Guangtou went to the hospital and took half a bottle of glucose water, and used some tricks to find someone to borrow a board car, rattan chair and umbrella, so that Li Lan could return to the countryside comfortably.
On the way to Li Guangtou pulling the car, Li Lan learned that the glucose water was specially left for her to drink, she cried happily, at this time Li Lan knew that Li Guangtou's nature was not bad, he had filial piety and brains, and his ex-husband was completely different.
Sometimes someone else's outward behavior doesn't define him.
On the contrary, people with good looks love to make dirty deals in private.
When Song Fanping was still alive, he would stand up to protect Li Lan when others made fun of her, and would encourage Li Lan to raise her head in her ear when she was inferior.
Even if the family is reorganized, Song Fanping does not discriminate, and on the first day, he tells Li Guangtou and Song Gang to love each other.
After Song Fanping's death, Song Gang was the person Li Lan valued most. He was tall and tall, handsome in appearance, just like Song Fanping at that time.
When the Cultural Revolution occurred in Liuzhen, Li Lan went to Shanghai for medical treatment, Song Fanping was arrested and went to work in the warehouse, and when there was no parent, Song Gang learned to cook and stir-fry, and after eating grain, he went to the river to catch shrimp.
When Song Gang lived in the countryside, he remembered that Li Guangtou liked to eat candy, and walked more than ten miles to see Li Guangtou with the big white rabbit milk candy.
Song Gang's sense of responsibility and delicate and considerate to people make Li Lan like it more and more the more he looks at it. When Song Fanping was still alive, he was the light and hope in Li Lan's heart, and now that he is gone, Song Gang is the hope in her heart.
Although the loss of a beloved husband, it is also reassuring to have his shadow on the child.
As Haruki Murakami said, we learn how fierce the world is, and at the same time learn that the world can also become warm and beautiful.
Because of the beauty of warmth, people can slowly disintegrate their sorrows.
Sometimes even if the loved ones around you leave, they may not be miserable and desolate.
I like a sentence from Zhang Xiaoxian:
Time can understand love, can prove love, and can also overthrow love.
Time will sublimate love, and the thoughts in the heart will become faith.
Since the loss is irretrievable, it is better to save the enthusiasm in your heart and live this life.